Windows Phone 8.1: The 5 Best Features of Microsoft’s New OS

The developer release of Windows Phone 8.1 shows Microsoft is serious about mobile

The 5 Best Features of Microsoft Windows Phone 8.1: Sense Capabilities

Microsoft has added a slew of features designed to help a Windows Phone 8.1 user maximize their smartphone battery life, get the most out of their mobile data allowance and optimize storage. These are the “Sense” capabilities.

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All smartphones have the ability to tell you how much mobile data you’ve used and provide battery-saving modes.

This new version of Windows Phone packages these functions up into handy features that provide visual representations, historical data and offer easy controls for doing things like setting cellular data download limits, automatically connecting to a Wi-Fi hotspot, compressing images to reduce data use or moving apps from built-in storage to SD cards.